Sentences with phrase «fictional history of»

Taking place in Egypt and Rome in 48BC, Assassin's Creed Origins offers a fictional history of real - world events using historical figures and landmarks in a breathtaking action - packed and beautifully visualized fantasy game.

The plot is set in a fictional history of real word events and follows a centuries old struggle between the Assassins, who fight for peace with free will, and the Templars, who desire peace through control.

Most of the special has nothing to do with the movie, thankfully (because those sections get confusing), and concentrate on the fictional history of the television show.

The story is set in a fictional history of real world events set in two time periods, the 16th and 21st centuries.

Not exact matches

Throughout most of history, there's been a symbiotic relationship between fictional story - tellers and creators — thanks to fiction's capacity to spark imagination and those with technical knowledge to help realize its vision.

«The problem with real ghosts, as opposed to the elegant fictional creations of the likes of MR James and Susan Hill, is that their behaviour is so erratic and irritating,» write the Telegraph «s reviewer of a new book called A Natural History of Ghosts.

Hopefully, you know that the bible is a collection of myths, mostly fictional bloody history, rife with contradictions and a tribal war god yahweh that would make Stalin and Hitler blush.

The two have been in movies together before, ranging from the ho - hum (Baby Mama) to the very good (Mean Girls) but if history tells us anything, it's that this movie's best bet is to find a way to get the two to host some sort of fictional awards show...

True innocence is in your heart we all know right from wrong, what is hurtful is sin regardless of any history fictional or not.

Its good to know that you admit that your understanding of Catholic history is based on fictional reading.

The «history,» whether fictional or real, whether told as a story or a confession, does not have the precision and purity of poetic «perspectival individuality.»

The Bible is full of fairy tales and should only be taken as a piece of literature of great importance just as the Odyssey is, but it shouldn't be used to govern one's life, much less to help build a relationship with the biggest fictional and ever - changing character in human history.

While Eusebius can be regarded as a serious, though by no means always an accurate historian, the numerous Christian Acts of various apostles, none of them earlier than the middle of the second century, are for the most part fictional romances, full of pious legend, but of little or no use as history.

I'm sorry, the «History Channel», but «Satan» and «Christ» are both elements of mythology, therefore your assertions regarding these fictional characters are unfounded.

Thus does John Updike report on Wilmot's abrupt and irreversible deconversion experience at the outset of In the Beauty of the Lilies, a four - generation saga which is partly a fictional version of Updike's family history, partly an account of the decline of religious faith in America, and partly a reflection of Updike's own angry, personal struggle to find religious meaning.

The only thing you honestly have is that book, there is no evidence to support that it is true and even if it includes snipits of history (names, places, etc) it still does not point to a god (numerous fictional books list similar things).

We do not for a moment mean to suggest that Gen. 12 - 50 was created out of whole cloth as an allegorical, fictional, personalized «history» of Israel....

That's like saying any fictional character from a book in history is proof of their existence.

Here is my evil plan — Create a fictional character, have him born into poverty in a part of the world full of strife with no recorded history, cast some doubts on his conception (that will keep them guessing), leave a decade or so gap in his life story, re-introduce him in the middle of nowhere and tell everyone he has all these amazing powers, he confounds and confuses all his followers and tells them not to tell anyone about what he does or where he is going and Oh yeah, they are all prostiitutes and tax cheats and lepers and the really lowlifes of society, deny them the chance to follow him, set him at odds with both the government and the church powers of his time, cast doubts on his seexuality and intelligence, make it so he refuses anyone to come to his aid and kill him in the most horrible way imaginable, then hide his body, make it so nothing he does can be historically proven.

Some of the most highly valued companies in history — Uber, Google and Tesla — literally survive on the capacity of investors to imagine and have faith that these still - fictional sciences will become fully real.

As someone steeped in the technicality of how our team at Revive & Restore will employ advancing biotechnologies to achieve our goal of ecological restoration it was a welcome and heartening reprieve to read an entertaining and creative take on how fictional twelve - year - old Chris remakes the passenger pigeon with some help from a remarkable secret family history while treading secretly himself to defy the limitations set upon him for his young age.

The game is set in the fictional British town of Wellington Wells in an alternate history

«Black Panther» opens on a short re-telling of the history of the fictional country of Wakanda, an African nation that sealed itself off from the world upon discovering its technological advantages and was left undisturbed as the rest of the world was colonized by Western European powers.

With his direction — what is unusual with John that I haven't run across in any other directors that come to mind — with the script, he supplies a pretty good fictional bio, a breakdown of the character and that character's history.

A decade ago, a character like her would've sprouted a garden of think pieces and handwringing about the long history of representation of black women as loud, no - nonsense, and mean, the fictional equivalent to the Tiffany Pollards and NeNe Leakes of the reality TV world.

Introduced in Fantastic Four vol 1 issue # 52, he brought with him a rich history of African traditions legends from the fictional land of Wakanda.

As you may expect, the four main actors in McGregor, Bremner, Miller and Carlyle truly deliver, and the magnetism between the first three, balanced with the fierce presence of the latter, is pure cinematic magic that could only be because of their history, both as well - written fictional characters deeply etched into history, and actors playing them who largely got their break together off the back of the dynamic original.

Series creator Nic Pizzolato has previously revealed that the second season of the series, set in a fictional California town, would be about «hard women, bad men and the secret occult history of the United States transportation system.»

It's probably telling that I can't recall much of Oldman's dialogue from «Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy» (2011), in which he played John le Carré's memorable antihero George Smiley — a fictional creation, to be sure, but no less determined a steward of his nation's place in history than Churchill.

Set in near - future Japan, «Isle of Dogs» follows a group of canines who've been exiled by the villainous mayor of fictional Megasaki City, whose anti-dog agenda is rooted in centuries of family history.

And part of what makes them special, there is a finite quality to the best of fictional stories through history.

Why anyone would trivialise, distract and dilute probably the most important naval battle in western history with the utter rubbish of CH's fictional part, (and the love sub-plot) beggars imagination!!

In his return to Marvel, Cole hopes to infuse Black Panther with a bit of real African culture and history, even though Wakanda is a fictional country on the continent.

Suffragette dramatizes their history through its fictional protagonist, Maud Watts (Carey Mulligan), a laundry woman drawn into a movement that struck the establishment of its day as dangerously radical.

It went up in September, just in time for the 25th anniversary of Spinal Tap and the DVD release of his latest musical adventure: an acoustic tour with Michael McKean and Christopher Guest playing the music made famous by Spinal Tap, The Folksman and other fictional legends of music history.

EXTRAS: The three - disc set includes a 44 - minute featurette on making the season, interviews with Patrick Wilson and Keith Carradine about the Lou Solverson character, and a look at the fictional book, «The History of True Crime in the Midwest,» that appears in the penultimate episode.

Recently, «Stonewall» received criticism for showing the Stonewall Riots through the eyes of a fictional white boy, when those riots were instigated by mostly black and Latina protesters, people whose names are already in the history books.

A fictional account of the extraordinary story of two implacable enemies in Northern Ireland - firebrand Democratic Unionist Party leader Paisley (Timothy Spall) and Sinn Fein politician Martin McGuinness (Colm Meaney)- who are forced to take a short journey together in which they will take the biggest leap of faith and change the course of history.

8:00 pm — TCM — My Darling Clementine John Ford's version of the famous confrontation at the OK Corral actually focuses more on Wyatt Earp's fictional romance with the fictional Clementine than on the real - life Earp / Clanton feud, but history aside, this is one of the greatest and most poetic westerns on film, proving yet again Ford's mastery of the genre and of cinema.

11:30 am — TCM — My Darling Clementine John Ford's version of the famous confrontation at the OK Corral actually focuses more on Wyatt Earp's fictional romance with the fictional Clementine than on the real - life Earp / Clanton feud, but history aside, this is one of the greatest and most poetic westerns on film, proving yet again Ford's mastery of the genre and of cinema.

8:00 am — Fox Movie Channel — My Darling Clementine John Ford's version of the famous confrontation at the OK Corral actually focuses more on Wyatt Earp's fictional romance with the fictional Clementine than on the real - life Earp / Clanton feud, but history aside, this is one of the greatest and most poetic westerns on film, proving yet again Ford's mastery of the genre and of cinema.

Most of the film unfolds inside this fictional story, but Susan's history with the author is gradually fleshed out.

A number of interesting facts are revealed, most by Zemeckis, who discusses composing for 2.35:1, his stances on improvisation and fictional tinkering with history, and his goals and inspirations for the film.

The fantasy genre can be tough for nonbelievers, especially if they need to swallow a lot of fictional history and backstory in the bargain.

Time travel plays a key role in the movie's distended wormhole of a narrative, which takes inspiration from textbooks both real (Stephen Hawking's «A Brief History of Time») and fictional («The Philosophy of Time Travel,» written by Roberta Sparrow, who is played in the film by Patience Cleveland).

This is apparent from scene one, a lovingly crafted animated prologue in which N'Jobu (Sterling K. Brown) narrates the history of the fictional, scientifically advanced African nation of Wakanda, in addition to explaining the origins of vibranium, the metal that has allowed his people to stay hidden in plain sight for generations.

Set in the fictional country of Zubrowka (a very fine bison - grass vodka IRL), the film displays an unbelievably precise, irreverent and occasionally very funny eye for the minutiae of a vaguely Germanic, vaguely Eastern European country marked by recognizable, if allegorical 20th century history.

Book Quiz: Round 1: Name 6 fictional characters Round 2: Name 5 comic book heroes Round 3: Complete titles of 10 Horrible Histories Round 4: Name 5 more comic book heroes Round 5: Name 6 more fictional characters Round 6: Name another 5 comic book heroes Round 7: Solve the fictional characters» anagrams Round 8: Complete the book titles Round 9: Name the authors Task sheets and word search

After having students gather in groups and assume the role of genetic counselors, Yonce presents teams with a (fictional) family that possesses various genetic histories.

The story of King T'Challa and the fictional African nation of Wakanda was first introduced in July 1966, but it seems to have a special relevance today, as educators and parents are using the film to talk to children about our race, power, and history.